Google: Algorithm Updates

Google page experience update now slowly rolling out

Top stories will stop using AMP as an eligibility factor starting...

Barry Schwartz | Jun 15, 2021 at 3:45 pm ET

Google June 2021 core update finished rolling out June 12th

This was a ten day rollout, and it might be a good time to check to see how you were impacted by this...

Barry Schwartz | Jun 15, 2021 at 11:55 am ET

Google demotes libelous content in search through its predatory sites algorithms

Google will continue to try to surface high quality, relevant content while downgrading sites that attempt to exploit peoples'...

Barry Schwartz | Jun 10, 2021 at 1:08 pm ET

How can you prepare for Google’s page experience update?

Page experience will be front and center in the race for Google’s top...

Digital Marketing Depot | Jun 10, 2021 at 12:31 pm ET

Google’s June 2021 core update was slow to roll out; here is what the data providers saw

This update took longer to roll out than previous core updates; we are expecting more from the July 2021 core...

Barry Schwartz | Jun 8, 2021 at 11:48 am ET

Google changes Core Web Vitals metrics; How to use lab and field data for optimization

Field data, considered towards rankings, will vary depending on real-world user device power, screen size, and network connectivity. Lab data...

Detlef Johnson | Jun 8, 2021 at 10:22 am ET

Google June 2021 Core Update rolling out

But there is more to come, part two of the core update is coming next month - it will be called the July 2021 Core...

Barry Schwartz | Jun 2, 2021 at 1:01 pm ET

Google page experience update will come to desktop pages

We will have time to prepare but overall, do not expect this update to be too...

Barry Schwartz | May 19, 2021 at 8:22 am ET

Your eleventh-hour SEO intel on Google’s Core Web Vital metrics

With page experience a definite search ranking signal moving forward, improving web performance and optimizing rich media becomes even more...

Sponsored Content: Cloudinary | May 6, 2021 at 7:00 am ET

Google product reviews update is done rolling out

Google did say while it is fully rolled out, the caveat is there may be "some edge case...

Barry Schwartz | Apr 22, 2021 at 1:49 pm ET

Google product reviews algorithm update was big but not like a core update, say data providers

Here is a roundup of the impact of Google's most recent algorithm update that touched down on April 8,...

Barry Schwartz | Apr 20, 2021 at 9:49 am ET

Google postpones page experience update rollout

The page experience update will now gradually rollout in mid-June and won't be fully live until the end of...

Barry Schwartz | Apr 19, 2021 at 11:56 am ET

Google announces product reviews algorithm update

Google has released a new quality algorithm update that promotes outstanding product...

Barry Schwartz | Apr 8, 2021 at 12:57 pm ET

How to audit Core Web Vitals

A step-by-step process to identify problems and prioritize fixes ahead of the Page Experience...

Tom Crewe | Feb 15, 2021 at 9:00 am ET

Google passage ranking now live in US English search results

Google said this can have a 7% impact on search queries - so this might feel like a big...

Barry Schwartz | Feb 11, 2021 at 1:26 pm ET

Google launched subtopics ranking in mid-November

Google subtopics ranking helps deliver search results with a greater diversity of content when you search for something...

Barry Schwartz | Jan 10, 2021 at 11:14 am ET

Google algorithm updates 2020 in review: Core updates, passage indexing and page experience

Despite the pandemic, Google was busy working on changes to its search ranking algorithm — here is a summary review of those changes through...

Barry Schwartz | Dec 30, 2020 at 8:00 am ET

Biased language models can result from internet training data

The controversy around AI researcher Timnit Gebru’s exit from Google, and what biased language models may mean for the search...

George Nguyen | Dec 29, 2020 at 8:00 am ET

Some early observations on the Google December core update

Some of these observations are based on the quality raters guidelines, the past core updates, and sound SEO...

Marie Haynes | Dec 24, 2020 at 9:15 am ET

Google confirms passage indexing is not yet live

We expected this to roll out in 2020 but that seems unlikely...

Barry Schwartz | Dec 22, 2020 at 8:02 pm ET